From: denebeim@deepthot.org (Jay Denebeim)
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to support a sector size 8192
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:43:57 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc31bt$6ti$1@dent.deepthot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200507231528.20356.jhml@gmx.net
In article <200507231528.20356.jhml@gmx.net>,
Johann Hanne <jhml@gmx.net> wrote:
>Wow, an answer directly from Plasmon, that's nice. :-)
>I've already got the FUSE driver (udofs-1.1-92.i386.rpm, based on
>FUSE 1.4, is this current?!). It is nice for a standalone drive, but
>we use a SCSI robotic changer in conjunction with an HSM system
>(Legato DiskXtender 2.9) which needs some kind of direct access to
>the drive. It probes for /dev/nst*, but I guess /dev/sd* would also
>work.
I'm a little confused here. Tape devices have variable sector sizes.
I believe they're required to handle up to 64K in a unix environment.
The drives I work on go up to 256k.
Jay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-25 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 19:26 Is it possible to support a sector size 8192 Johann Hanne
2005-07-22 18:18 ` Steve McIntyre
2005-07-22 19:21 ` Christian Iversen
2005-07-22 21:21 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-07-23 13:31 ` Johann Hanne
2005-07-23 18:29 ` Steve McIntyre
2005-07-23 13:28 ` Johann Hanne
2005-07-23 18:56 ` Steve McIntyre
2005-07-25 15:43 ` Jay Denebeim [this message]
2005-07-25 19:08 ` Steve McIntyre
2005-07-25 19:37 ` Jay Denebeim
2005-07-25 20:49 ` Steve McIntyre
2005-07-25 22:38 ` Johann Hanne
2005-07-25 20:50 ` Steve McIntyre
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